Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a simplified 5 Minute Outline.

Over the past few months, I’ve been in the trenches of articulating the Clarity Spectrum—a new set of book categories based on what the author intends to create for a reader. In that process, I realized something key: The 5 Minute Outline revolves around just two questions.

The two questions in the quiz. The two questions you can ask yourself at every stage of writing. The two questions that pull you out of performance space and back into connection with the message you want to deliver to the person who needs to hear it.

This guided 5 Minute Outline holds that focus, and it looks something like this:

* Where am I meeting my reader?

* What is my reader holding?

* What do I want to offer my reader?

* What helps my reader pick up what I’ve offered?

* What does my reader need to expect now?

Keep tuning in weekly to settle into this coaching space while your book emerges. And when it’s time to dig in further, upgraded spaces and deeper services are available too.

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